18 'lvays of the poor Indian. No, J see the average Mexican as a simple soul, guile- less as a little child, peace-loving, and content to live, love, and be loved. The post office closed at seven; she must hurry. This article was already two days overdue. There! Sixty-cen- ta vo stamps for air mail. She smiled in her most kindly way at the postmistress, and Señorita Cecilia smiled back with her spinster, pussy-cat face. For twelve years she had handled the mail for San Nicolas Her uncle owned many large huertas and was a man of influence. She was of fine family. And so, as soon as Carolyn Crane had left, with direct and guile- less reasoning, she neatly detached the two air-mail stamps from the bulky envelope. A little glue, and good as new! The Señorita Americana sent so many letters. One more or less couldn't possibly matter. The letter itself she ripped into fairly fine bits, throwing them into a disused well which she was gradually filling with all manner of stray things. But a gentle, vagrant wind caroming down from the hills found a scrap of the paper and eddied it out into the garden. Popo, Señorita Cecilia's beloved goat, seized on it with a fanatic glitter in his cold eye. e ways of the poor In a simple soul, guil ontent to live, love, an said the morsel. The goat chewed deliriously. He was mad about paper. -CHARLES KAUFMAN . . OF ALL THINGS T HE dynamic young crusader from the West who was to revitalize the Republican Party turns out to be the elderly Henry P. Fletcher of Penn- sylvania. The horseshoe still hangs over the White House door. . Weare happy to note that the G.O.P.'s have at last found their issue. Somebody has discovered that the Deal must be Square, not New. . Time is taking its toll of the old friends. Babe Ruth is going into the ((Don't goo. f n ay never be like this ag-ain." Y':' ..' =1 J . gloaming and Jimmy Walker is run- ning up a circumference. . F. Scott McBride blames repeal for all our troubles, from wrecks to riots. We should not be surprised if it were found guilty of the Dutch-elm disease and beach pajamas. . The income-tax installment should have been in the hands of the collector on June 15th, not merely in the mail- box. The authorities have decided that the United States and Jim Farley are entirely different things. . Five hundred executives are unable to make up their minds whether or not a college education is an asset in a busi- ness career. It is so hard to remember back to when there were any assets. . The best advice to the Class of '34 would be this: If you are going into business, bring it with you. . The Soviet Union has become one of the world's heaviest producers of gold. As every follower of Ham Fish knows, most of it will be shipped over here for corrupting purposes. . Congress has won its long, hard fight on the war-debt problem. The dehts will not be revised, pruned, cut, shaved, or paid. . The many friends of the American press will regret to hear that it is hav- ing an attack of that old Mdivani trouble again. . Another famous Ger an paper, the Frankfurter Zeitung, has gone under Nazi management. It there- fore ceases to be a newspaper and be- comes hot Aryan. -HOWARD BRUBAKER . . THE GR.EEN FIELD This green field is the masterpiece Of many hands. Here you may know Backs strained and thighs, and wills were bent And sweat poured out, to make it so. Cut, cleared, and tended, now it lies Docile to man, while he stands near. But let him turn and it will slip Into the thicket, Eke a deer. -ELIZABETH COATSWORTH